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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871-72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.

Her 1872 work Middlemarch has been described by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.
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The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature Jul 26, 2019

by Benjamin Franklin , John Woolman , William Penn , Plato , Epictetus , Marcus Aurelius , Francis Bacon , John Milton , Thomas Browne , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Robert Burns , Saint Augustine , Thomas à Kempis , Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , Aristophanes , Marcus Tullius Cicero , Pliny the Younger , Adam Smith , Charles Darwin , Plutarch , Virgil , Miguel de Cervantes , John Bunyan , Izaak Walton , Aesop , Wilhelm Grimm , Jacob Grimm , Hans Christian Andersen , John Dryden , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , David Garrick , Oliver Goldsmith , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Robert Browning , George Gordon Byron , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Christopher Marlowe , Dante Alighieri , Alessandro Manzoni , Homer , Richard Henry Dana , Edmund Burke , John Stuart Mill , Thomas Carlyle , Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Pierre Corneille , Jean Racine , Molière , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Friedrich von Schiller , Philip Sidney , Ben Jonson , Abraham Cowley , Joseph Addison , Richard Steele , Jonathan Swift , Daniel Defoe , Samuel Johnson , Sydney Smith , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , William Hazlitt , Leigh Hunt , Charles Lamb , Thomas De Quincey , Thomas Babington Macaulay , William Makepeace Thackeray , John Ruskin , Robert Louis Stevenson , Edgar Alan Poe , Henry David Thoreau , James Russell Lowell , Michael Faraday , Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz , Simon Newcomb , Archibald Geikie , Benvenuto Cellini , Michel de Montaigne , Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve , Ernest Renan , Immanuel Kant , Giuseppe Mazzini , Herodotus , Tacitus , Francis Drake , Philip Nichols , Francis Pretty , Walter Bigges , Edward Haies , Walter Raleigh , René Descartes , Voltaire , Jean Jacques Rousseau , Thomas Hobbes , Jean Froissart , Thomas Malory , William Henry Harrison , Niccolo Machiavelli , William Roper , Thomas More , Martin Luther , John Locke , George Berkeley , Hippocrates , Ambroise Paré , William Harvey , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joseph Lister , Louis Pasteur , William Shakespeare , Thomas Dekker , Francis Beaumont , John Fletcher , John Webster , Philip Massinger , Blaise Pascal , Charles W. Eliot , William A. Neilson , Henry Fielding , Laurence Sterne , Jane Austen , Walter Scott , Charles Dickens , George Eliot , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Washington Irving , Bret Harte , Mark Twain , Edward Everett Hale , Henry James , Victor Hugo , Honoré Balzac , George Sand , Alfred de Musset , Alphonse Daudet , Gottfried Keller , Guy de Maupassant , Theodor Storm , Theodor Fontane , Leo Tolstoy , Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ivan Turgenev , Juan Valera , Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Alexander L. Kielland

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The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.
Content:
The Harvard Classics:
V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn
V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius
V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne
V. 4: John Milton
V. 5: R. W. Emerson
V. 6: Robert Burns
V. 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis
V. 8: Nine Greek Dramas
V. 9: Cicero and Pliny
V. 10: The Wealth of Nations
V. 11: The Origin of Species
V. 12: Plutarchs
V. 13: Æneid
V. 14: Don Quixote
V. 15: Bunyan & Walton
V. 16: 1001 Nights
V. 17: Folklore & Fable
V. 18: Modern English Drama
V. 19: Goethe & Marlowe
V. 20: The Divine Comedy
V. 21: I Promessi Sposi
V. 22: The Odyssey
V. 23: Two Years Before the Mast
V. 24: Edmund Burke
V. 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle
V. 26: Continental Drama
V. 27 & 28: English & American Essays
V. 29: The Voyage of the Beagle
V. 30: Scientific Papers
V. 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
V. 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays
V. 33: Voyages & Travels
V. 34: French & English Philosophers
V. 35: Chronicle and Romance
V. 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther
V. 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
V. 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur
V. 39: Prologues
V. 40–42: English Poetry
V. 43: American Historical Documents
V. 44 & 45: Sacred Writings
V. 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama
V. 48: Blaise Pascal
V. 49: Saga
V. 50: Reader's Guide
V. 51: Lectures
The Shelf of Fiction:
V. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones
V. 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice
V. 4: Guy Mannering
V. 5 & 6: Vanity Fair
V. 7 & 8: David Copperfield
V. 9: The Mill on the Floss
V. 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale
V.11: The Portrait of a Lady
V. 12: Notre Dame de Paris
V. 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant
V. 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, Storm, Fontane
V. 16–19: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev
V. 20: Valera, Bjørnson, Kielland

The Age of Innocence Mar 4, 2021

by Edith Wharton

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«The Age of Innocence» tells the story of a forthcoming society wedding, and the threat to the happy couple from the appearance in their midst of an exotic and beautiful femme fatale, a cousin of the bride. Newland Archer is a distinguished lawyer looking forward to his marriage to shy, lovely, sheltered May Welland. But when he meets Countess Ellen Olenska, scandalously separated from her European husband, a Polish count, he falls hopelessly in love and blights his marriage to May by failing to break off his relationship with the countess. Meanwhile, in a typical Wharton twist, Newland Archer's bride may be timid, but she is determined to marry her fiance and uses all the power of New York society to bring him to heel.

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Persuasion Mar 4, 2021

by Jane Austen

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First published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen’s last work. Its mellow character and autumnal tone have long made it a favorite with Austen readers. Set in Somersetshire and Bath, the novel revolves around the lives and love affair of Sir Walter Elliot, his daughters Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary, and various in-laws, friends, suitors, and other characters, In Anne Elliot, the author created perhaps her sweetest, most appealing heroine.
At the center of the novel is Anne’s thwarted romance with Captain Frederick Wentworth, a navy man Anne met and fell in love with when she was 19. At the time, Wentworth was deemed an unsuitable match and Anne was forced to break off the relationship. Eight years later, however, they meet again. By this time Captain Wentworth has made his fortune in the navy and is an attractive “catch.” However, Anne is now uncertain about his feelings for her. But after various twists and turns of fortune, the novel ends on a happy note.
In Persuasion, as in such novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Austen limned the plight of young women who could escape the constraints of family life only by marrying, and suggest the foolishness of women who believed they were free and not dependent on the financial and social resources of men. At the same time, Persuasion offers an ironic and subtle paean to the true love that enables one woman to rise above straitened economic circumstances and the stifling social conventions that restricted women to narrowly circumscribed lives in the common sitting room.
Sure to appeal to admirers of Jane Austen, Persuasion will delight any reader with its finely drawn characters, gentle satire, and charming re-creation of the genteel world of the 19th-century English countryside.

Anne Elliot must have been Jane Austen herself, speaking for the last time. There is something so true, so womanly about her, that it is impossible not to love her. She is the bright-eyed heroine of the earlier novels matured, chastened, cultivated, to whom fidelity has brought only greater depth and sweetness instead of bitterness and pain. —Anne Thackeray Ritchie
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste. —Virginia Woolf

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Middlemarch Mar 4, 2021

by George Eliot

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By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich in narrative irony and suspense, «Middlemarch» is richer still in character, in its sense of how individual destinies are shaped by and shape the community, and in the great art that enlarges the reader's sympathy and imagination. It is truly, as Virginia Woolf famously remarked, 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'.

"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people." —Virginia Woolf
"What do I think of ‘Middlemarch’? What do I think of glory — except that in a few instances this 'mortal has already put on immortality.' George Eliot was one. The mysteries of human nature surpass the 'mysteries of redemption,' for the infinite we only suppose, while we see the finite." —Emily Dickinson
"‘Middlemarch’ is probably the greatest English novel." —Julian Barnes
"They've [women] produced the greatest writer in the English language ever, George Eliot, and arguably the third greatest, Jane Austen, and certainly the greatest novel, ‘Middlemarch’..." —Martin Amis

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Silas Marner (Standard Classics) May 26, 2015

by George Eliot

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A man becomes a recluse when he’s accused of a crime he did not commit

Silas Marner is a skilled weaver working long hours in London for a Calvinist sect that does not appreciate him. When the congregation’s funds are stolen, Silas is framed for the theft and excommunicated. Presumed guilty, abandoned by the love of his life, evicted from his modest home, and humiliated by the men he called his brothers, Silas wanders north to a small village in England’s bucolic countryside. Forsaking contact with humanity, he throws himself into his work, caring for little other than the constant movement of his hands and the stack of money he is slowly amassing. But fate sees it fit that Silas should lose his newfound wealth and gain the companionship of a young orphan, an experience that proves more valuable than any currency.

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“I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author’s works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect which marks a classical work.” —Henry James

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The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition [newly updated] Mar 3, 2020

by Benjamin Franklin , Plato , William Shakespeare , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Charles Darwin , John Woolman , William Penn , Epictetus , Marcus Aurelius , Francis Bacon , John Milton , Thomas Browne , Robert Burns , Saint Augustine , Thomas á Kempis , Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , Aristophanes , Cicero , Adam Smith , Pliny the Younger , Plutarch , Virgil , Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra , John Bunyan , Izaak Walton , Anonymous , Aesop , Grimm Brothers , Hans Christian Andersen , John Dryden , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Oliver Goldsmith , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Robert Browning , Lord Byron , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Christopher Marlowe , Dante Alighieri , Alessandro Manzoni , Homer , Richard Henry Dana Jr , Edmund Burke , John Stuart Mill , Thomas Carlyle , Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Pierre Corneille , Jean Racine , Molière , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Friedrich von Schiller , Michael Faraday , Hermann von Helmholtz , Lord Kelvin , Simon Newcomb , Sir Archibald Geikie , Benvenuto Cellini , Michel de Montaigne , Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve , Ernest Renan , Immanuel Kant , Giuseppe Mazzini , Herodotus , Tacitus , Philiip Nichols , Francis Pretty , Walter Bigges , Edward Haies , Walter Raleigh , René Descartes , Voltaire , Jean Jacques Rousseau , Thomas Hobbes , Jean Froissart , Thomas Malory , Sir Thomas Malory , William Harrison , Niccolò Machiavelli , William Roper , Sir Thomas More , Martin Luther , John Locke , George Berkeley , David Hume , Hippocrates , Ambroise Paré , William Harvey , Edward Jenner , Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joseph Lister , Louis Pasteur , Charles Lyell , Confucius , Christian , Thomas Dekker , Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , John Webster , Philip Massinger , Blaise Pascal , Henry Fielding , Laurence Sterne , Jane Austen , Sir Walter Scott , William Makepeace Thackeray , Charles Dickens , George Eliot , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Washington Irving , Edgar Allan Poe , Francis Bret Harte , Samuel L. Clemens , Edward Everett Hale , Henry James , Victor Hugo , Honoré de Balzac , George Sand , Alfred de Musset , Alphonse Daudet , Guy de Maupassant , Gottfried Keller , Theodor Storm , Theodor Fontane , Leo Tolstoy , Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ivan Turgenev , Juan Valera , Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Alexander L. Kielland , Charles Eliot

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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

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Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf."
This e-book is all 51 volumes, the equivalent of over 20,000 printed pages in one e-book. It is fully searchable with a completely linked table of contents.

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Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Nov 17, 2015

by George Eliot , Rebecca Mead

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On April 10, 1994, PBS stations nationwide will air the first episode of a lavish six-part Masterpiece Theatre production of Eliot's brilliant work, Middlemarch, hosted by Russell Baker and produced by Louis Marks. The Modern Library is pleased to offer this official companion edition, complete with tie-in art and printed on acid-free paper. Unabridged.

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Middlemarch (Dover Thrift Editions) Feb 1, 2016

by George Eliot

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A passionate young woman's search for a rewarding and meaningful life unfolds in Middlemarch, an English town taking its first steps toward modernization. From tradesmen to gentry, the provincial community's residents form a microcosm of political and social change during the 1830s. The shifting perspectives ― including those of idealistic Dorothea Brooke, ambitious Dr. Lydgate, prodigal Fred Vincy, and faithful Mary Garth ― provide a timeless array of observations on human nature, drawn with subtlety, depth, and humor.
Virginia Woolf praised Middlemarch as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," and the story's thematic concerns range from the status of women and the rise of the middle class to morality, religion, and marriage. Rich in narrative irony and suspense, George Eliot's masterpiece will captivate readers of all ages.

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Adam Bede May 17, 2012

by George Eliot

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Scenes of Clerical Life May 17, 2012

by George Eliot

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The Mill On The Floss Nov 22, 2020

by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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The Mill on the Floss is a novel by Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), first published in three volumes in 1860. The novel is based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.

“And If Life Had No Love in It,
What Else Was There for Maggie?”
Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom enjoy a rural childhood on the banks of the river Floss. But the approach of adulthood created tension: intelligent and fiery Maggie tests the boundaries of nineteenth-century society in her search for love, while Tom embraces convention and accepts his father’s desire for him to become a businessman. Increasingly self-righteous, Tom disapproves of his sister’s suitors and when he discovers that she took a fateful boat trip with Stephen Guest, her cousin’s fiancé, he turns his back on her. Maggie is ostracized by her beloved brother and her own community, and only through tragic events are the siblings reunited . . .

The Mill on the Floss is one of George Eliot’s great works.It is considered autobiographical, drawing details from Eliot’s own childhood. This beautifully crafted nineteenth century classic continues to enchant its readers.

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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (2021 Edition) Nov 10, 2020

by Dante Alighieri , Jane Austen , Honoré de Balzac , Charlotte Brontë , Anne Brontë , Emily Brontë , Brontë Sisters , Samuel Butler , Miguel de Cervantes , Joseph Conrad , Daniel Defoe , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Arthur Conan Doyle , Alexandre Dumas , George Eliot , Gustave Flaubert , Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Nikolai Gogol , The Brothers Grimm , Homer , Victor Hugo , Washington Irving , Henry James , James Joyce , D. H. Lawrence , Gaston Leroux , Jack London , Arthur Machen , Herman Melville , Marcel Proust , Mary Shelley , Stendhal , Robert Louis Stevenson , Bram Stoker , Sun Tzu , Jonathan Swift , William Makepeace Thackeray , Leo Tolstoy , Mark Twain , Oscar Wilde , Marcus Aurelius , Francis Bacon , Benjamin Franklin , Plato , William Shakespeare , Charles Darwin , Charles Eliot , John Woolman , William Penn , Thomas Browne , Adam Smith , Aesop , Lord Byron , Alessandro Manzoni , Pierre Corneille , Ben Jonson , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Edgar Allan Poe , H.P. Lovecraft , Samuel L. Clemens , Presbourg Press

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names:

- The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri]
- Emma [Jane Austen]
- Persuasion [Jane Austen]
- Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen]
- Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac]
- Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë]
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë]
- Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë]
- The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler]
- Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes]
- Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad]
- Nostromo [Joseph Conrad]
- Moll Flanders [Daniel Defoe]
- Bleak House [Charles Dickens]
- Great Expectations [Charles Dickens]
- The Brothers Karamazov [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
- Crime and Punishment [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
- The Idiot [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]
- The Count of Monte Cristo [Alexandre Dumas]
- Daniel Deronda [George Eliot]
- Middlemarch [George Eliot]
- Madame Bovary [Gustave Flaubert]
- The Yellow Wallpaper [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]
- Dead Souls [Nikolai Gogol]
- Grimm's Fairy Tales [The Brothers Grimm]
- The Iliad [Homer]
- The Odyssey [Homer]
- Les Misérables [Victor Hugo]
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
- The Portray of a Lady [Henry James]
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [James Joyce]
- Sons and Lovers [D. H. Lawrence]
- The Phantom of the Opera [Gaston Leroux]
- The Call of the Wild [Jack London]
- The Great God Pan [Arthur Machen]
- Moby Dick [Herman Melville]
- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]
- Frankenstein [Mary Shelley]
- The Red and the Black [Stendhal]
- The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde [Robert Louis Stevenson]
- Dracula [Bram Stoker]
- The Art of War [Sun Tzu]
- Gulliver's Travels [Jonathan Swift]
- Vanity Fair [William Makepeace Thackeray]
- Anna Karenina [Leo Tolstoy]
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich [Leo Tolstoy]
- War and Peace [Leo Tolstoy]
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Mark Twain]
- The Picture of Dorian Gray [Oscar Wilde]

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